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The book presents post-war British historical drama not only as a phenomenon within literature and theatre, but also as an alternative form of representing the past, not as much competing with historiography as complementing it.

The criteria for judging the authenticity of Bach's Cantata 143 are detailed and present to the reader all facts known since the work's composition in the 18th century.

This book examines the part played by Scottish newspapers in constructing identity during the key period of the devolution process from 1997-2011. It uses insights from cultural and media studies, sociology, cognitive science and narratology into the ways in which culturally defined knowledge and notions of identity have been constructed.

The book analyses 20th century Polish literature in the contexts of queer theory, psychoanalysis and modernism studies. It presents readings of well-known authors and furthermore offers theoretical ideas relevant outside the Polish context.

The volume presents contributions from the conference "Formal Description of Slavic Languages 10.5". The papers describe interesting data patterns found in Slavic languages and analyze them from the perspective of formal grammar, including generative syntax, Distributed Morphology, formal semantics and others.

The proceedings of FDSL 10 offer current formal investigations into Slavic morphology, phonology, semantics, syntax and information structure. The analyses in this volume address the following Slavic languages: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Bulgarian, Czech, Macedonian, Old Church Slavonic, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Resian, Slovak and Slovene.

The book looks at the uses of the ordinary in the short stories of T.F. Powys and V.S. Pritchett. It observes two models the theme is explored in: the violation (ekstasis), and the preservation (stasis). It explores the use of the theme in terms of: characterization, events, setting, narrativity, eventfulness, causality and narrative rhetoric.

The book discusses religio-scapes of Prosperity Gospel in Africa and beyond in theological, sociological and anthropological perspectives. It compares African prosperity theologies with North- / South American and Asian variants. A feature of African Prosperity Gospel is its influence on other religions, such as African Islam and African Religion.

The authors show the dialectical aspects of the evolution of critical theory. In their polemic with J.Habermas third-generation critical theorists (e.g. A. Honneth) refer to the aesthetical, ethical and social-philosophical views of the critical theory classics M. Horkheimer and T.W.Adorno, especially the mimesis concept they outline in the book The Dialectic of Enlightenment.

The volume provides current methodological insights into translation didactics. It investigates both theoretical and practical aspects of translator training with a view to exchanging knowledge and resources among those who contribute to the complex and challenging endeavour of constructing translation competence.

The book is a collection of research papers on a wide range of educational issues written by educators and researchers from several different institutions.

This book bears witness to the tightening of bonds that has been taking place among the Brazilian and the German historiographical scenes in the last years. It comprises contributions by scholars of four different countries, which deal with a wide array of issues in the fields of Theory of History and Comparative History of Historiography.

Politics of Dissent offers a framework to account for the multiple manifestations of dissent and their contributions to shape political alternatives. The book highlights the potential of dissent from the initial questioning of the dominant system to the creation of new political and social agendas.

In a broad outlook on the concept of transculturality, 19 authors and specialists, of diverse origins, consider how transculturality can help us understand the world. The contributions deal with literary texts, movies, drama, and visual art. The chapters cover themes such as multiculturalism, stereotypes, movement, or bilingual writing.

The book covers the modelling of language variation, post-colonial language contact, forms/functions of ELF, intergenerational conflicts of bilingual Holocaust refugees, hip hop discourse of Tirolian adolescents, contacts between literature, science and the arts, high art and mass culture, childhood and violence in current crime fiction.

The contributions of this book shed light on the wild zone. The term refers to the existence and experience of a group (ethnic, social, sub-cultural, sexual, religious, etc.) that, in some identifiable ways, is/was marginalized in American society.

Discussing the ancient notion of ekphrasis, this study examines the interpenetration of literary and non-literary art. The author demonstrates how ekphrasis is useful for reading contemporary novels that feature non-representative, conceptual works of art by taking a close look at the works of Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Tom McCarthy.

This book refers the voice of Polish anthropology in the Western debate on the Clifford Geertz's interpretive anthropology. This book will show how principle categories such as text, interpretation, thick description have been absorbed by anthropological discourse, which influence theories (epistemology) and research methods in anthropology.

The study analyzes the first decades of the Yiddish advice colum A Bintel Brief. Created by Abraham Cahan, it ran as the most enduring feature in the New York Yiddish newspaper Forverts. The early letters and responses in A Bintel Brief reveal the hardships of uprooted Eastern European Jews in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century.

The book analyzes the theoretical and practical aspects of civil service in Polish public administration and discusses it in a European context. The civil service is explored from a comparative, historical and systemic perspective.

This collection of essays wants to draw attention to the tricky interface between multilingualism and translation and discusses the current preliminary findings with a particular focus on Slavonic migrant languages.

The volume considers various themes related to interactions between the culture of the book and politics in Polish history. Each of the fourteen authors deals with a different topic, chronologically starting with the beginnings of the early Piast monarchy in the 10th century, and bringing the discussion up to contemporary times.

The book is a collection of essays on the historical development of the poetics of Imagism. It discusses various facets, strands and sub-strands of Imagism, as well as its ongoing legacy. Special attention is paid to the concepts of the image, the objective correlative, texture, and generally structure of modernist poetry.

The book is a study of the state of contemporary Polish democracy. As other similar initiatives across the world, it aims at portraying detailed aspects of performance of the Polish democracy. It covers all dimensions and components of democracy, depicts and evaluates it from three different methodological angles.

The authors explore the interaction between literature and politics in a variety of genres of literary texts from different time periods and continents. They focus on the relationship between fiction and identity; the creation of spaces of/in fiction; and the interplay of irony and fiction.

"Empirical Methods in Language Studies" presents 22 papers employing a broad range of empirical methods in the analysis of various aspects of language and communication. The individual texts offer contributions to the description of conceptual strategies, syntax, semantics, non-verbal communication, language learning, discourse, and literature.

Collected under the theme of "Visions and Revisions", the papers included in this volume examine different aspects of literature and culture of the Anglophone world. Divided into three parts - poetry, prose and culture - this diverse volume reflects the dynamics of change in literature and culture, enabling investigation of the multifaceted canon.

This revised and updated Second Edition provides an introduction to the psychometric analysis and evaluation of rater-mediated assessments using many-facet Rasch measurement (MFRM). Essay rating data are used to illustrate the study of rater errors and biases and their implications for drawing reliable, valid, and fair inferences from assessment outcomes.

The volume takes a close look at the forms and functions of family and kinship in cultural narratives in the United States. It analyzes social and cultural contexts of kinship and family membership, relations of family and nation on a metaphorical level, and the political discourses that regulate sexuality and reproduction.

The book contains a philosophical justification of the solutions proposed in the field of contemporary linguistics. The author is based on the philosophical works of Karl Popper, Edmund Husserl and Izydora Dambska, and linguistic works of Noam Chomsky and Andrzej Boguslawski.